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How Jonathan Demme's Silence of the Lambs Was Made. Director Jonathan Demme, known for his hit movie The Silence of the Lambs, died Wednesday due to complications from esophageal cancer at the age of 7. Here, PEOPLE takes a look back at a 1. Lambs and the real- life serial killers and FBI agents that inspired its unforgettable — and horrific — characters.

The cell door opens. Into a dank asylum basement steps Clarice Starling, the FBI trainee dispatched by her driven boss to interview the mad doctor. Clang! The door slams shut behind her. Simultaneously fearful and determined, she makes her way down the dark corridor to confront psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal ”the Cannibal” Lecter, whose aid she hopes to enlist in catching another serial killer. The doctor waits at smug attention in his steel- and- glass cage, like a symphony conductor — or a sadistic inquisitor.

Die Liste von Slasher-Filmen zählt chronologisch Filme auf, die dem Slasher-Genre zugeordnet werden. · PEOPLE takes a look back at a 1991 story on the making of Jonathan Demme's Lambs and the real-life serial killers and FBI agents that inspired its.

They meet; they talk; they fence. She wants information, he wants intimate revelations. Watch Freezer HD 1080P here. When she shoves a questionnaire at him, he quietly reveals what he did to a census taker: ”I ate his liver, with some fava beans and a nice bottle of Chianti.”Not since 1. Janet Leigh turned on the shower in Psycho, has a film quite touched off the seismic tremors of terror which have accompanied The Silence of the Lambs. Hannibal the Cannibal has become the Norman Bates of the ’9. Starling’s native wits. Last week the film was No.

And when Americans aren’t seeing the movie, they are apparently reading the book, Thomas Harris’s best- selling 1. Fascinated by the horror, people in corporate offices, college corridors and coffee shops can’t stop bleating about Lambs.

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Says Halloween director John Carpenter: ”We’re not only frightened for Clarice, we’re also frightened for ourselves because of the darkness within.”Much of the attraction is the psychological veracity that underlies the film’s key characters: Jodie Foster as the ambitious, vulnerable neophyte, Scott Glenn as her cool, low- key FBI mentor, and Anthony Hopkins as Lecter, the sleek, serene butcher. The riveting realism is hard won, for behind the scenes — and behind the actors — real federal agents and real killers served as grim models. Novelist Harris, director Jonathan Demme, Foster and Glenn all spent time at the FBI’s Quantico, Va., training center, learning about firearms, law enforcement and serial killers from the agents who stalk and catch them.

The lives, deeds and rituals of real- life multiple murderers were carefully researched to bring the psychodrama to life. Some of the actors still recall with anguish their immersion in Lambs’ dark world.

I lost a certain degree of innocence,” says Glenn. To this day I find myself having unpleasant dreams about the things I found out.”No one in the cast pursued the sociopathic trail more fervently than Jodie Foster. She has, of course, been a victim of the pathological mind: It was Foster whom guy- next- door John Hinckley sought to impress by shooting President Ronald Reagan in 1. After writing once about her ordeal, Foster has understandably refused to discuss Hinckley and rarely reveals private emotions in dealing professionally with the aberrant behavior that has been a feature of many of her movies, e. Taxi Driver and The Accused.)When the actress arrived in Quantico for a crash course in agentry nearly two years ago, she met Special Agent Mary Ann Krause, 3. Clarice. Krause, who, like Clarice, is a shy, soft- spoken Southerner who sometimes works undercover, hit it off at once with Foster.

Krause recalls their initial meeting: ”We went out to dinner, and my first and lasting impression was that she was very sharp and eager to learn. Not just about the FBI, but about me. She really wanted to get a picture of a female agent. She asked me about my family — I’m married to a former agent and have two stepchildren. She wanted to know how tough the training was for women and if I felt like one of the guys. I told her yes, but that it was important to maintain some form of femininity to keep your identity.”SNAP/REX/Shutterstock.

Krause, who joined the Bureau in 1. Watch My Lai Four Online Forbes. Jodie’s film moments.

I always remain professional in front of people,” says Krause. But when it gets to be too much, and I’m on my own, I just go and cry in my car. In that one scene when she’s crying in the car? I saw it and thought, ‘Now that’s like me.’ ”The worst part, Krause says, is ”when you find a dead body. There is a moment of silence when you find a child.” To counteract the deep- felt horror and tension on the set — all the film’s interiors were constructed in an abandoned Pittsburgh factory — director Demme, his crew and cast kept the atmosphere light.”Everything was a joke,” recalls Brooke Smith, 2. Lambs as the abducted victim, Catherine Martin.

Anthony Hopkins would always go into the Lecter character. On Valentine’s Day he gave me a chocolate rose and said something like Lecter would and just walked away. The crew ate lamb and made the blueprint of the set into a board game called the Gumb Game (named for the psychotic killer known in the movie as Buffalo Bill). It had stuff like ‘liposuction, go back two spaces.’ The object was to save Catherine.”The levity was a necessity because, says Smith, a good- natured child of show business (her mother is publicist Lois Smith), ”when we filmed it was like a cloud came over us.” Smith says that her climactic, hysterical cry from the well where Buffalo Bill kept his victims — ”I want my mommy!” — was given the stamp of authenticity by FBI Special Agent John Douglas, who heads the bureau’s Investigative Support Unit and was a consultant on the film. He came up to me,” says Smith, ”and said that he had seen girls in these situations, and they revert back to childhood.”Filmmakers and filmgoers must wrestle with primitive emotions in Lambs.

Behind the murders and the madness of Lecter and Buffalo Bill — brilliantly played by Ted Levine — who makes clothes from the skin of his victims, is a deadly amalgam of three real- life serial murderers who have captured the public imagination. Perhaps no killer has struck so deeply into America’s — and Hollywood’s — consciousness as a Wisconsin farmer named Ed Gein, the prototype for Norman Bates in Psycho. On the opening day of deer season in 1. Gein, a quiet, seemingly harmless bachelor who lived alone in a farmhouse outside Plainfield (pop. Bernice Worden, proprietor of the local hardware store.

He then took her back to his farm, partially dismembered her and trussed her up like a deer. Authorities, who later that evening searched the farmhouse, found parts of women’s bodies scattered throughout the debris- strewn rooms. But while Gein, like Buffalo Bill, lived in utter squalor, his late mother’s rooms and her clothes had been lovingly maintained — as Norman Bates’s mother had been more specifically preserved in Psycho. Gein, who was a favorite of local children and even baby- sat for a neighbor, was judged to have murdered at least one other middle- aged woman and possibly many more. He apparently liked to wear the skins of his victims and to look at his image in multiple mirrors. He was institutionalized for life and died in 1. Mendota Mental Health Institute in Wisconsin.

The second model for Lambs’ psychotics was Ted Bundy, who was electrocuted in Florida in 1. Kimberly Leach. Bundy — a handsome former Boy Scout and law student who once seemed destined for a promising career in Republican politics in Washington State, and who had in fact written a pamphlet on rape prevention — confessed to the murders of a score of other women before he died. Demme had Buffalo Bill use Bundy’s trick of gaining sympathy by putting a cast on his wrist.

From the third nightmare model, a Philadelphia practical nurse named Gary Michael Heidnik, came the notion of imprisoning Bill’s victim in a basement. On the morning of March 2. In Heidnik’s basement investigators found three partially clad women chained to pipes.